On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and …
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On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx), and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957. The New York Times hailed the book's appearance as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 3207
- Goodreads:
- 2552
- BNF ID:
- 11953706m
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On the Road
389 pages
Italian language
Published 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-55517-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 6613864
En el camino
400 pages
Spanish language
Published Sept. 22, 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-84-339-2014-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 316495
Sur la Route / On the Road
437 pages
French language
Published 2007 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-036766-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 482520
Sur la route
538 pages
French language
Published Aug. 27, 1997 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-039403-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 828567
Sur la route
611 pages
French language
Published May 1, 2012 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-044469-4Copied ISBN!
Sulla strada
333 pages
Italian language
Published 1989 by Mondadori.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-32581-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 9948590
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
English language
Published 2011 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-311954-8Copied ISBN!
Sur la route
French language
Published 2003 by Éditions Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-076845-5Copied ISBN!
On the road
English language
Published Sept. 22, 2000
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-118267-4Copied ISBN!
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